ML19053A695

Summary of Meeting with General Electric Hitachi to Discuss Shipping Accident Tolerant Fuel in the Model No. 2000 Package (W/Enclosure 1 and 2)

ML19053A695
Person / Time
Site:	07109228
Issue date:	02/22/2019
From:	William Allen Spent Fuel Licensing Branch
To:	Christopher Regan Division of Spent Fuel Management
Allen W
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ML19056A061	List: ML19053A695 ML19056A062
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EPID L-2018-LRM-0090
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February 22, 2019 MEMORANDUM TO: Christopher M. Regan, Deputy Director Division of Spent Fuel Management Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards FROM: Chris Allen, Project Manager /RA/

Spent Fuel Licensing Branch Division of Spent Fuel Management Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards

SUMMARY

OF FEBRUARY 5, 2019 PUBLIC MEETING WITH GENERAL ELECTRIC HITACHI TO DISCUSS SHIPPING ACCIDENT TOLERANT FUEL IN THE MODEL NO. 2000 PACKAGE

Background

This was a category 1 public meeting between General Electric Hitachi (GEH), and U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff to discuss shipping irradiated accident tolerant fuel rod segments in the Model No. 2000 package. Regulatory commitments were not made at the meeting. GEH provided presentation slides prior to the meeting. The publicly available meeting presentation slides are attached as Enclosure 3.

Meeting Summary On February 5, 2019, NRC staff held a partially closed public meeting with GEH representatives via teleconference. The list of meeting attendees is Enclosure 1. The discussion followed the agenda provided in Enclosure 2.

After introductions and opening remarks, GEH briefly reviewed the licensing history of the Model No. 2000 package before outlining their approach to amending the Model No. 2000 certificate of compliance. GEH stated that they intended to submit a mark-up of the Model No. 2000 certificate of compliance and safety analysis report page changes in support of their application.

Subsequently, GEH discussed the proposed technical changes to each safety analysis report chapter to support authorizing shipments of accident tolerant fuel in the Model No. 2000 package. During their discussion, GEH also identified their approach to addressing NRC staff requests for additional information associated with irradiated fuel rods which had not been answered during the previous Model No. 2000 amendment request (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System Accession No. ML16235A154).

CONTACT: Chris Allen, NMSS/DSFM (301) 415-6877

C. Regan In addition, to the information contained in the meeting slides, GEH either provided clarifying information in response to NRC staff questions about the package design, the accident tolerant fuel characteristics and the safety function of the accident tolerant fuel cladding, or committed to obtaining more information to better address NRC staffs questions. In addition, the approach to developing radiological source terms and determining dose rates generated much discussion.

As a result of the information exchange, both GEH and NRC staff agreed that a public meeting to discuss radiological source terms and radiological analyses was warranted. After discussing potential dates for the next pre-application meeting and the amendment submittal, the meeting was adjourned.

Docket No.: 71-9228 EPID No. L-2018-LRM-0090

Enclosures:

1. Meeting Attendees

2. Agenda

3. Meeting Slides

C. Regan 3

SUMMARY

OF FEBRUARY 5, 2019, PUBLIC MEETING WITH GENERAL ELECTRIC HITACHI TO DISCUSS SHIPPING ACCIDENT TOLERANT FUEL IN THE MODEL NO. 2000 PACKAGE, DOCUMENT DATE: February 22, 2019 DISTRIBUTION:

DSFM r/f NRC attendees Filename: G:\SFST\Allen\Part 71\9228 (GE-2000)\ATF\MeetingSummary.docx ADAMS PKG No.: ML19056A061 Memo: ML19053A695 OFC: SFM SFM SFM SFigueroa NAME: WAllen JMcKirgan via e-mail DATE: 2/21/19 2/21/19 2/22/19 OFFICIAL RECORD COPY

MEETING ATTENDEES NAME AFFILIATION NAME AFFILIATION Chris Regan NRC Michelle Catts GEH John McKirgan NRC Christopher Kmiec GEH Meraj Rahimi NRC Scott Pfeffer GEH Travis Tate NRC Don Hartsock GEH Yoira Diaz-Sanabria NRC Fred Jones GEH Tae Ahn NRC Erik Kirstein GEH Chris Allen NRC Carlos Martinez GEH Jimmy Chang NRC Lisa Schichlein GEH Drew Barto NRC James Hammelman NRC JoAnn Ireland NRC Yong Kim NRC Jason Piotter NRC Ricardo Torres NRC Darrell Dunn NRC Chris Bajwa NRC Olivier Lareynie NRC Foreign Assignee Enclosure 1

AGENDA Meeting between General Electric Hitachi (GEH) and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission February 5, 2019 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Two White Flint T7B51 Public Session (15-20 minutes)

• Introduction (Attendees and Purpose)

• Review of the Meeting Agenda

• High-Level Discussion of RAIs [ML16235A154]

Non-Public Session

• Chapter by Chapter Review of Technical Approach

• Submittal Strategy and Timing

• Discuss Plan and Timing for Next Meeting Enclosure 2

Meeting Presentation Slides Enclosure 3